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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 12

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 142 pages · text by OCR

This FBI file section contains a 20 January 1953 letter from the Johnson County, Indiana civil defense office asking J. Edgar Hoover whether the International Flying Saucer Bureau was subversive, with an enclosed issue of its bulletin Space Review. It also holds 1956 FBI memoranda and letters to Air Force investigators on a Van Nuys landing claim, a bright light seen from Oxford, Pennsylvania, and a low spinning object seen near Henderson, North Carolina. In each case the FBI took no action.

  • p. 30 …However, the ability to measure these phenomena does not seem to have advanced in stop with…
  • p. 35 …from the fact that reasonable theories could be advanced to explain away all the reports of…
  • p. 69 …borders on the occult), they were able to prognosticate well in advance the recent earthquake which…
  • p. 115 …All names and addresses will be held strictly confidential, to be used only when contacting the…
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3. Below the Deecy= Highly accurate guns, cannons or other necessary weapons which are constantly trained on our Deecy or adjacent Area to de

4. Highly Secret and Skilled Personnel = To prevent any leak as to plan; and able to carry out operation to be successful on the first trial if possible.

Send Decoy up in an Area Known to have consistently seen these strange objects, sent to predetermined Altitude, and known flying patterns. So that Gun Crews below are alert to let go instantaneously when Strong Craft approaches to investigate our Decoy. Decoy and car Ground operators should be in an Area where we can retrieve the fallen object.

Of course if it is known that these objects are from other planets the need for bringing one down is not immediately imperative.

Respectfully submitted to be forewarned if you do not available

To the Hollywood College

Los Angeles , Calif . . Calij .

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 142 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.